Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont
During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]
Over 2,100 Hours of Silence: The Battle to Speak in the Name of Iran’s People
This fieldnote examines Iran’s internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technical failure but as a political form.
The Cost of Harm to Indigenous Land and Water: Compensation, Cultural Loss, and the Limits of Government Repair
This article examines the McArthur River Mine Native Title compensation ruling as a landmark case in the recognition of Aboriginal cultural harm in Australia.
Code from nowhere
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.
Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.
Notes From Unsettling Ground
What do we owe the people who hand us their stories?
Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement
This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.
Health justice two ways: examples from the field
Through storytelling for health, the authors provide examples of different practices designed for justice and connection, community acupuncture and ethnographically informed research.
What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture
Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.